Title

Nonstandard Work in Developed Economies: Causes and Consequences

Year

2003

Abstract

This book reveals the considerable variation in the levels of growth in a broad set of nonstandard work arrangements while presenting a comprehensive view of how, as a result, the nature of the employment relationship is changing within and among countries. The international roster of economists, sociologists, and labor law experts who contributed draw on cross-country variations in economic conditions and institutional characteristics to explain why some arrangements have grown faster in some countries than in others and what this means for workers. By considering a broad array of nonstandard work arrangements in a number of economies, the authors provide a richer understanding than if the focus had been limited to a single country of one or a short-list of employment arrangements.

Contents

  1. Introduction / Susan Houseman, Machiko Osawa
  2. The Change in Work Arrangements in Denmark and Germany: Erosion or Renaissance of Standards? / Edeltraud Hoffmann and Ulrich Walwei
  3. Regulatory Convergence?: Nonstandard Work in the United Kingdom and the Netherlands / Colette Fagan
  4. Nonstandard Work in Italy and Spain: The Quest for Flexibility at the Margin in Two Supposedly Rigid Labor Markets / Inmaculada Cebrián, Gloria Moreno, Manuela Samek, Renata Semenza, Luis Toharia
  5. Nonstandard Work Arrangements in France and the United States / Françoise Carré
  6. The Growth of Nonstandard Employment in Japan and the United States: A Comparison of Causes and Consequences / Susan Houseman, Machiko Osawa
  7. Employment Choices and Pay Differences between Nonstandard and Standard Work in Britain, Germany, the Netherlands, and Sweden / Siv Gustafsson, Eiko Kenjoh, Cécile Wetzels
  8. Standard and Nonstandard Work Arrangements, Pay Difference, and Choice of Work by Japanese Mothers / Nobuko Nagase
  9. Work Arrangements Among Women in the United States / Naomi Cassirer
  10. In Search of a New Framework for Flexibility: Reregulation of Nonstatndard Employment in the European Union / Isabelle Schömann, Klaus Schömann
  11. Nonstandard Work Arrangements in Japan and the United States: A Legal Perspective / Noriaki Kojima and Keiko Fujikawa
  12. Work Attitudes and Nonstandard Work Arrangements in the United States, Japan, and Europe / Arne L. Kalleberg, Jeremy Reynolds

Note

These papers were originally presented at a conference sponsored by the Japan Foundation and the W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research in August 2000

ISBN

9780880992640 (cloth) ; 9780880992633 (pbk.)

Subject Areas

EMPLOYMENT and COMPENSATION; Nonstandard work arrangements; Contract arrangements; Part time and nonstandard hours of work; Temporary employment